Coalition agreement
“This is how my son wrote when he was three”: Twitter users are amazed at the signatures of the traffic light politicians
The signatures of the top staff of the SPD, Greens and FDP seal the traffic light coalition
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The Ampel coalition agreement has been signed – but more than the content, the signatures of power raise questions for many Twitter users. The future Chancellor Olaf Scholz in particular has a curious signature.
So now it’s official: The top politicians of the SPD, Greens and FDP signed the traffic light coalition agreement on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Olaf Scholz (SPD) is to be elected as the new Chancellor by the members of the Bundestag. The signatures therefore had a historical character, the paper sealed with them will shape Germany in the next four years – but many Twitter users above all had eyes for the different signatures.
At the top is the autograph of the new strong man of the Ampel government, the designated Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. But it doesn’t seem too supportive of the state: a circle, a line, a hook – everything looks quickly scribbled on. The name is difficult to decipher from it, at most the letters O, L and S. “That’s how my son wrote when he was three,” marveled someone on Twitter. However, the SPD general secretary chatted from the sewing box: “That’s already the long version.” “With that he can always say afterwards that it wasn’t him,” speculated a Twitter user, and the Scholz signature reminded the comedian Bastian Bielendorfer of his own attempts to sign “on the DHL messenger’s tablet”.
FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing recalls a doctor
With interest and some astonishment, some users also took note of the signature of FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing. It comes across as very different from that of Olaf Scholz: jagged, sharp, downright intellectual – and yet illegible. That reminded many of the typical doctor’s script. “My neurologist and Wissing apparently share a signature,” joked one user. With his handwriting, the FDP general reminded others more of the fever curve of stock exchange prices.
The SPD chairman Norbert Walter-Borjans and the Greens bosses Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who also signed the coalition agreement, showed that there is another way. Their names are relatively easy to read from their signatures. But the decisive factor is anyway: All these signatures of power are valid, the new government can officially start work with them soon – and will then be measured against what its representatives have signed on that day.
Source: Twitter